Edison International has filed a claim against Mitsubishi Heavy Industries for $7.57 billion for losses incurred after defective steam generators were installed in the San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant in California, Mitsubishi said Tuesday.
Mitsubishi, which says that its total liability for Edison...

The smallest commercially operating nuclear power plant in the United States is the Fort Calhoun plant in Nebraska that uses one reactor with the generating capacity of 502 megawatts. By contrast, the Palo Verde plant is the country's most powerful. The three reactors at that facility have a combined...

India’s engineering, manufacturing and construction giant Larsen and Toubro (L&T) has built the country’s first two 700 MWe steam generators designed for the Kakrapar Atomic Power Station Unit 3 operated by the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited.
The first generator for the...

The Tokyo Electric Power Company, owner and operator of the crippled Fukushima Daiihi nuclear power plant, has turned to the International Atomic Energy Agency for help evaluating is shuttered Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear plant.
TEPCO is reportedly turning to international experts to evaluate the plant...

[UPDATED]The Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) will send a third shape-changing robot into highly radioactive portions of the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in August, seeking information that can help technicians decide the best method for removing spent or molten reactor fuel from...

French nuclear plant construction firm Areva, which announced this week it would sell its Canberra Industries Inc. subsidiary, has signed a series of agreements with the China National Nuclear Corporation and China Guangdong Nuclear Power, the company said Tuesday.
A press release said the deals also...

The Natural Resources Canada, known as NRCan, and the British Department for Energy and Climage Change (DECC) have signed a memorandum of understanding that allows for greater cooperation in the field of nuclear energy.
The deal will build on the partnership between Candu Energy Inc. and GE Hitachi...

The European Union has contributed $2,240,400 to nine partners to establish the security of fuel supply for Russian-designed nuclear power plants in the region, Westinghouse Electric Company said Monday.
The aim of the program is to establish an alternate fuel supply for nuclear power plants that...

The U.S. Department of Energy announced Wednesday that it had agreed to $1.8 billion in loan guarantees that represent the final phase of funding for the Alvin W. Vogtle Electric Generating Plant construction project inWaynesboro, Ga.
The additional two units under construction represent the first...

“More than 70 new nuclear reactors are now under construction, but that’s not nearly enough to make a strong dent in CO2 emissions worldwide,” said Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor of nuclear science and engineering Jacopo Buongiorno recently. “So the question is...

Japan’s central government has approved a $50 billion expenditure over five years to help with restoring areas hit by the March 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake -- a 9.0-magnitude seismic jolt -- and the follow up tsunami that, among other things, crippled the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant...

German utility E.ON’s announcement that it plans to close down OKG Aktiebolag’s Oskarshamn Unit 2 reactor in southeastern Sweden by 2020 for economic reasons was met with opposition by minority shareholder Fortum, a Finnish energy group.
In a statement, Fortum said, “On the contrary...

Construction of a four-reactor nuclear power plant in northern Turkey will include French, Turkish and Japanese construction firms, Japanese media announced late last week.
The construction arrangement will include the French company Bouygues and “two or three” Turkish contractors who...

For the first time in South Korea, the country’s nuclear power plant operator Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Company said it would decommission one of its nuclear reactors, starting with the oldest plant in the country.
Reports say that the government wants to use the Kori No. 1 pressurized...

The head of the International Energy Agency, a think tank for developed countries on energy matters, said China is making a sizeable effort to turn around its coal-based energy economy in a time when the world’s focus is on the threat of climate change.
Maria van der Hoeven said that China is...

A state-based study group in Virginia, the Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy, says that nuclear power is clean and safe and could help turn the state’s energy deficit into an energy surplus.
The state of Virginia will require 4,000 megawatts more in 2021 than it does today and the...

Stressing the importance of a secure system for nuclear power plant computer systems, a Pittsburgh-based software company SpiralGen Inc. said Thursday it would use Department of Energy Small Business Innovation Research funding to adapt technologies developed for military use “to provide new inner...

Global Nuclear Fuel said Monday that it had been awarded an extension on its fuel supply contract for four of Entergy’s boiling water nuclear power plants in a deal worth more than $100 million.
The contract extension runs through 2021 and calls for eight fuel reloads or two each at the FitzPatrick...

U.S. nuclear power innovator Westinghouse Electric is keeping busy in Sweden, announcing a new contract for the delivery of new CR99+ control rods to the Forsmark Nuclear Power Plant for Units 1 and 2. The contract was signed by Forsmarks Kraftgrupp AB and involves rod assemblies made at the Westinghouse...

[UPDATED] Minnesota-based Xcel Energy Inc. has settled its legal dispute with Babcock & Wilcox Nuclear Energy of Charlotte, N.C., agreeing to pay $36 million out of $45 million that B&W says it was owed.
The settlement also covers pending litigation with SNC Lavalin Nuclear of Montreal, Canada...

The French government said Wednesday that it would support a rescue of struggling nuclear power giant Areva that would include a merger between its nuclear reactor business with Eletricite de France, the utility that is Areva’s largest customer.
It is said to be a match made in heaven, given...

Tunisia and Russia have signed a memorandum of understanding that outlines their intent to cooperate on the use of nuclear power for electricity generation and for other peaceful purposes involving medicine, agriculture, spent fuel management. The agreement also covers training technicians for these...

Rosatom chief Sergey Kiriyenko said construction on a two-reactor project in Iran would begin this fall, announcing the start target in Moscow in a forum at the Atomexpo 2015 exhibition.
Kiriyenko said “full scale construction activities at Bushehr-2 will start in the fall,” referring...

A government panel in Japan on Monday stuck to a nuclear power target of 20-22 percent two days after 12 people were injured during a massive earthquake that shook buildings in Tokyo.
The earthquake was powerful, registering a magnitude of 7.8. But the epicenter was in a remote area of the Pacific...

Sellafield Ltd in Britain has announced a second contract within the month that it has awarded for containers for nuclear waste.
Early in May, Sellafield said it had awarded a 10-year, $73 million contract to Stainless Metalcraft, a division of engineering firm Avingtrans, for development of a storage...